Energy Trading/ETRM Analyst (Technical and Functional) - SA

A career in our Treasury and Commodities practice, within Risk Assurance Compliance and Analytics services, will provide you with the opportunity to assist clients in developing analytics and technology solutions that help them detect, monitor, and predict risk. Using advanced technology, we’re able to focus on establishing the right controls, processes and structures for our clients to ensure that decisions are based on accurate information and assure that information provided to third parties is accurate, complete, and can be trusted. Our team helps organisations assess, design, and implement improvements to their core treasury activities. We focus on optimising the day to day processes of treasury and cash transformation, commodity risk management and technology, currency risk management, accounting and regulation, cash management, and controls.

Our Team

The world of Treasury and Commodities is changing. With ever changing business, financial, and regulatory environments our clients are asking for ever more challenging support. Our expertise includes advice on technology/ trading enablement solutions, system architecture, financial instruments, risk management, hedging strategies and derivatives, and helping clients set up and improve their operational and risk management functions.

PwC’s Treasury and Commodities team provides a full range of commodities support to clients across non-bank financial services businesses, trading businesses and leading multinational corporations. Our teams provide these specialist services across a wide geographical area, including the UK, Europe and the Middle East.

In the UK, we have the Global Firms largest concentration of expertise including those with a background as Business Analysts, Treasurers, Risk Managers, Traders, IT Specialists and Finance professionals.

About The Role

We are embarking on a number of ETRM (Energy Trading Risk Management) programmes with our clients to modernise their system landscape.

If you are a business analyst with a proven ability to deliver business process and IT solutions in commodities/ energy trading, this role will provide you with an opportunity to shape a greenfield, or upgrade, Endur implementation. In turn, you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge across the trade lifecycle, for different commodities. You will be able to enhance your network of Endur delivery capabilities with a number of PwC’s leading energy clients.

Responsibilities

Your role will vary depending on your specific areas of expertise and our clients’ needs, however you will typically perform the following day to day activities:

• Assisting with planning, delivery, and assurance of your workstream’s business analysis deliverables.

• Driving scope for a workstream. You will assist in assessing the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options.

• Solving issues for your clients, or escalating to a Senior Manager when required.

• Although you will report to a Senior Manager, you will take the opportunity to lead and own elements of the project wherever possible.

• You will generate innovative approaches to existing problems and new opportunities.

• Stakeholder management - building relationships with stakeholders, keeping them informed and managing expectations.

• Sound analytical skills and change management capabilities

We are a supportive and cooperative team, committed to helping our people develop. We empower and trust our people to work independently, providing coaching and guidance as needed. We work closely with other teams within PwC and you will be encouraged to develop a network of relationships with clients and more broadly across the firm. You’ll work as part of a team and may also have the opportunity to travel within the UK and abroad, as we provide services to many multinational companies.

Our team is a great place to work for those who are looking for an exciting new challenge and who enjoy working with varied and interesting clients across the assurance and advisory domains.

Required Skills

As a Senior Associate BA you will require the following skills, experience and knowledge:

• Experience of energy trading markets, with an understanding of one of the following markets considered an advantage: European Power, European Gas and/ or Environmental products.

• Understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle. Agile project delivery experience is considered an advantage.

• Experience in shaping processes and solutions, including capturing business problems, value drivers, and functional/ non-functional requirements.

• A working knowledge of trade lifecycle across different trading instruments would be an advantage, including:

  • Physical trading and operations

  • OTC – Including forwards, swaps, and simple options

  • Exchange traded futures & options

• The ideal candidate will have:

  • Some configuration experience of ETRM/ CTRM applications, in particular Endur.

  • Technical configuration including scripting (highly desirable).

  • Some knowledge of at least one of the following functional areas:

    • Trade capture - complex deal modelling and pricing

    • Market Risk

    • Risk Valuation

    • Back-Office processes

Risk
Risk is all around us and in our complex world, is changing all the time. Our teams bring people from diverse backgrounds together, using their skills and cutting-edge technology, to help solve complex problems. We are pioneers in a world of changing risk and our market leading services build resilient organisations. Join us and together, we can support our clients to rethink risk.

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